We have been supporting clickable ISBN’s for just over a month. And we now have a rather rich example of the potential of this enhancement. The Bookseller (central source of industry information for publishers and booksellers in the UK) are using Exact Editions to make their substantial bi-annual Supplements available through the web. The main (adult) title has 8,943 ISBNs in it which are all now live links (I can promise you that they all work and I have … Keep Reading
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Continuum are showcasing 6 of their current and forthcoming theology titles on the Exact Editions platform at http://www.exacteditions.com/continuum
Each book has a 32pp sample available for searching and browsing. The Continuum editors also write an active theology blog and it seems likely that they will be blogging about and linking to the samples.
René Girard is an intellectual giant (theologian, anthropologist, philosopher and literary theorist) so his latest book Evolution and Conversion will be much discussed. The opening pages are … Keep Reading
Lawrence Lessig’s book The Future of Ideas is now available for free from his web site (here for future reference is the explicit link for the PDF http://thefutureofideas.s3.amazonaws.com/lessig_FOI.pdf — note the use of S3). It looks like a great book and while I now have the PDF download on my Mac I am still going to buy it from Amazon. The book was first published by Random House in 2001 and Lessig with their agreement now makes it available … Keep Reading
According to the New York Post, noted by Bo-Sacks, Wal-Mart is cutting 1,000 magazine titles from its range of stocked items. Since Wal-Mart delivers about 15% of US magazine retail sales that is a big bite out of the long-tail. Major business titles, including The Economist, BusinessWeek, Forbes and Fortune, are trimmed in the cull.
The clear message for those publishers in the long tail (you have to have a very short tale to put The Economist and … Keep Reading
Steve Jobs was interviewed by the New York Times shortly after his MacWorld presentation on Tuesday:
… Keep Reading…… he had a wide range of observations on the industry, including the Amazon Kindle book reader, which he said would go nowhere largely because Americans have stopped reading.
“It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don’t read anymore,” he said. “Forty percent of the people in the U.S. read one book or less last year.